I spent a decade in ERs where the "system failure" wasn't a glitch in a computer—it was a human being bleeding out because the insurance company decided their life wasn't a covered expense.
Trade is the only thing that keeps the world from sliding back into the dark ages, and right now, the world’s energy arteries are being severed with surgical precision. The reporting is grim.
The strike on an Iranian commercial vessel near Qeshm Island this Sunday is not a tragedy of errors or a random act of aggression; it is a punctuation mark.
The Gulf of Aden—the fastest maritime link between Asia and Europe, through which roughly 12 to 15 percent of global trade by value passes—is proving that geography still dictates economics.
The Red Sea has become an escalating geopolitical flashpoint. Yemen’s Houthi rebels repeatedly attack shipping vessels and oil tankers transiting vital maritime choke points, threatening to destabilize global commerce…